Posted on 02/15/2019 8:12:19 AM PST by BenLurkin
An invisible force is having an effect on our Universe. We can't see it, and we can't detect it - but we can observe how it interacts gravitationally with the things we can see and detect, such as light.
Now an international team of astronomers has used one of the world's most powerful telescopes to analyse that effect across 10 million galaxies in the context of Einstein's general relativity. The result? The most comprehensive map of dark matter across the history of the Universe to date.
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"If further data shows we're definitely right, then it suggests something is missing from our current understanding of the Standard Model and the general theory of relativity," said physicist Chiaki Hikage of the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe.
We don't know what dark matter is. What we do know is that the gravitational effects we see in the Universe cannot be accounted for by observable matter alone. For example, the rotation speed of galaxies would be quite different if it was based solely on the gravity from observable mass.
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Dark matter is a stretch.
If interested, look up the electric theory of the universe. Explains a lot!
> something is missing from our current understanding of the Standard Model and the general theory of relativity <
These so-called scientists probably didn’t consider any Climate Change effects when doing their calculations. Why do I always have to think of everything?
Dark matter. Kinda laughable.
There’s a famous cartoon with a professor and a student in front of a chalkboard. There’s complex math on one side, and in the middle ‘a miracle happens’ then complex math on the other.
The caption is something like, “We’ll need a little more detail on the middle part.”
There is no dark matter, and the “error” is in some mathematical assumptions, in the “standard model” that carry all the way into mathematical assumptions about gravity, and a lack in those assumtpions about other matters not considered in the “standard model”. The “hole” is not in missing matter. It is the math that is missing things.
Just admit that you don’t know.
“dark matter” is a myth.
The same people who mock people for believing in invisble sky fairies, believe in invisible matter
In an old radio theory book I used to have that was from the 1930s, it claimed that an as-yet undiscovered element permeated the universe, and that it conducted electomagnetic and light waves. This element was called aether.
It’s energy/matter leakage from other dimensions.
If we lived in a two dimensional universe (think sheet of paper) and we were getting warmer because the desk lamp was shining on us, we would be wondering, “where’s all this heat coming from?” And we’d feel dark, compressed areas left by a pencil and wonder what caused that, too.
Could be the Holy Spirit. That guy gets around!
A rather potent myth at that, insofar as it influences gravitational lensing.
"Can I buy some pot from you?"
Either that, or they forgot to take the lens cap off of their telescope.
Not to worry. AOC’s Green New Deal will take care of the problem.
If interested, look up the electric theory of the universe. ....
Add Zero point energy to that to make a bit more sense.
What’s dark matter? We don’t know, we can’t see it but it spans 10 galaxies.
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